Happy Grateful Blessed with Tami Tran

The Kaysville Creamery and Nikko Sushi with owners Dallas Hamblin & Jennifer Tran

Tami Tran interviews:  Dallas Hamblin, owner of Kaysville Creamery and Jennifer Tran, owner of Nikko Sushi.   

Dallas is a small business owner, after achieving success with several other businesses (financial planning and insurance), he decided to open an ice cream store in the perfect location on the corner of Kaysville's Historic Main Street Street.  This corner was the home of the original Barnes Bank and most recently All State Insurance.  Dallas has renovated the space and created a beautiful new store. He wants his customers to enjoy delicious ice cream from the BYU Creamery and have a great experience as they interact and mingle with customers and employees.

Jennifer Tran grew up in the restaurant business, her parents owned a restaurant so she learned firsthand how to manage and run a successful business. She's a master social media marketer and has created quite a buzz for Nikko Sushi.  She wants their restaurant to be a gathering place for friends and families to enjoy.  Along with their incredible food, they offer activities for children and adults. Karaoke, Coloring, Bingo just to name a few of the events they offer on a weekly basis for customers eating dinner and spending quality time with their families. 

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Introduction to Happy*Grateful*Blessed

Episode 1 2022 Happy Grateful Blessed: Introduction to my re-branded podcast, Happy Grateful Blessed. I just started my new term as Mayor of Kaysville Utah. This podcast will introduce the podcast and direction moving forward. I'll share news about Kaysville City, introduce listeners to Kaysville Businesses and Kaysville Residents, and include things I'm learning along the way. 

Rachel Brown Parry- Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (Muscle Eye Brain Disease ) MEB

Join me and my guest co-host, Shelley Winget as we laugh, cry and learn from Rachel Parry what unconditional love and sacrifice looks, and feels like.

In this episode, Rachel, Carson's mom explains what it's like to care for a child with disabilities, and shares lessons she's learned as she's found herself through her special son. 

When Carson was 16 months old, he was diagnosed with a very rare form of Congenital Muscular Dystrophy -Muscle Eye Brain Disease (MEB). It's an inherited disease.

There are only between 15-20 diagnosed cases of MEB in North America. It's that rare.

MEB causes Severe Migraines/Headaches, Depression, Muscle weakness, vision abnormalities, brain structure abnormalities, severe intellectual disabilities. There's no cure.  Carson can't walk or speak.  He's learned to say Maam to call for his Mother, and imitate certain sounds to communicate. 

Carson is 15 years old, he has a great sense of humor and loves to laugh. His favorite song is "Splish-Splash I was taking a bath." He's protected and loved by the family dogs and adored by his classmates in school and treasured by his family at home. 

In her spare time, Rachel works as a substitute teacher. She loves the children she teaches as she brings to the classroom a special ability to notice the children that need extra love and support. 

Payton Hampton -Hot Shot Firefighter, Law Student, Husband and soon to be Father

Payton Hampton: Hot Shot Firefighter, Law Student, Husband and soon to be Father. He shares lessons learned from working on his grandpa's farm, and insights into relationships and responsibility. 

Interview with Shelley Francis Winget - Words Matter

Shelley and Jory Frances were married for 17 years. Together they created a million dollar company and had four beautiful children. She supported Jory through the challenges of entrepreneurship, parenting, severe depression and helped him with his political career. Shelley was Jory's rock. She providing stability, balance and unconditional love. Jory was physically and mentally abused and suffered from extreme neglect as a child and teen. He was- bounced around between relatives during most of his childhood, he was homeless in his early teens, became an emancipated minor from his biological mother and step-father at 16, and ended up begging for leftover food as he lived in a car while trying to work full time and attending high school.  

Jory committed suicide on November 9, 2016.  Leaving Shelley to raise their children ages 4 to 14 years old as a single parent. Shelley has picked up the pieces of their shattered lives by being brutally honest and sharing her love and laughter with their kids.  She said, "after looking into the tear-filled eyes of our oldest son and breaking his heart with news of his father's suicide....all the rest of our potentially awkward parent-child conversations became easy really fast. I can't imagine anything worse than the news I had to share the day Jory died."

This is only a glimpse into Shelley’s story....more episodes to come.

Aeryun Hong -Korean International Student

In this episode, Ryan and I interview Aeryun Hong. Aeryun moved to Utah to participate in the "English as a second language"(ESL) program sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Provo, Utah. 

After spending about a year and a half studying English, Aeryun returned to her native Korea to serve an 18-month service mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Seoul, Korea.

Aeryun is a graphic design major at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, Idaho. She will graduate from BYU-I in April 2020.

 

5. Ryan Tran and Tanner Hallows: of Second.North Development

Tanner Hallows and Ryan Tran, two of the four partners, from Second North share lessons learned from past and current projects and their plans for the future. They took a real estate investment course and one month later closed on their first house.   

4. Benny Brown: Co-Founder Wise Headwear and owner of Wise Landscaping

In this episode, we interview Benny Brown. He's the co-founder of Wise Headwear. He shares his experience creating a brand and manufacturing his product.

3. 2019 Evolving Fresh Starts

Fresh Start 2019. My solo debut!  Stay tuned, for tips and tricks to feel: Happy, Grateful and Blessed.

1. 2018 Introduction to YaketyYak

Introducing Tamara Tran and Victoria Ellington, Hosts of Yakety Yak Podcast. Join us for entertaining interviews and great conversations.